we will endeavor to describe its beauty as well as our limited capacities will allow. Let us, therefore, first consider the grand end for which it was created, which will enable us to conceive some idea of its magnificence. God created it to manifest His glory. Though "the Lord has made all things for Himself,"[1] yet this is particularly true of Heaven, for it is there that His glory and power are most resplendent. We are told in Scripture that Assuerus, whose kingdom included one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, gave a great feast, which lasted one hundred and fourscore days, for the purpose of manifesting his splendor and power. So the Sovereign King of the universe is pleased to celebrate a magnificent feast, which continues, not for one hundred and fourscore days only, but for all eternity, to manifest the magnificence of His bounty, His power, His riches, His goodness. It is of this feast that the prophet speaks when he tells us: "The Lord of hosts shall make unto all peoples in this mountain a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees."[2] By this we are to understand that He will lavish upon His elect all the riches of the heavenly country and inebriate them with unutterable delights. Since this feast is prepared to manifest the greatness of God's glory, which is infinite, what must be the magnificence of this feast and the variety and splendor of the riches He displays to the eyes of His elect?
